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Southern Spectacular Tour 8 |
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| Reunion Tower, Dallas, was unfortunately closed to the public in September 2010 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Dallas by night - J P Morgan Tower (above) and the Renaissance Tower (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Dealey Plaza named in honor of James Bannerman Dealey who founded the Dallas Morning News - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Looking along Dealey Plaza towards what is now the Sirxth Floor Museum (left). The Old Red Courthouse viewed from the Grassy Knoll (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Elm Street and the infamous [former] Texas School Book Depository and the famous sixth floor window - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| The John F Kennedy Memorial close-by the Old Red Courthouse - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| The JFK Memorial was conceived by Lyndon Johnson and is fifty feet square by thirty feet high - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Downtown Dallas: the Bank of America Tower, (left) and the J P Morgan Tower (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Contrasting buildings dominate the skyline - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| When in Dallas don't forget to look up - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| The Magnolia Building surmounted by the famous Pegasus which made its debut on the building in 1934 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| At the time although Pegasus symbolised the Magnolia Oil Company (now part of ExxonMobil) it was to become an ikon of Dallas. Although photographing the AT&T Building is prohibited I was invited into the lobby to take pictures of Golden Boy (Spirit of Communications, originally called Genius of Electricity) and now a symbol of AT&T - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Adolphus Hotel (above) contrasts with the highly decorative building next door - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| The flags of the city of Dallas, the state of Texas and of the United States of America by City Hall - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Dallas City Hall (above) and the city skyline seen from there - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Parking Lot (above) and Old Glory | |||
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| Thanksgiving Square with its marble spiral chapel opened in 1976 on the 200th Anniversary of Thanksgiving in the United States - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Dallas is an easy city to get around and has good public transport. A DART bus (left) and an ornate clock by a train station as the tramway stops are referred to in Dallas (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| The Dallas Farmers' Market is on a truly grand scale - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Trailing Longhorns Sculpture in Pioneer Plaza Park with its 40 larger than life longhorns being driven by three cowboys - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Although perhaps not obvious in the photographs the cowboys represent an African American, an Hispanic and, what is termed in the USA, an Anglo - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Dallas Bus Depot offers connexions to other US cities as well as to Mexico - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Perhaps rather confusingly for British visitors, the DART trams are referred to as trains. Efficient, clean and frequent they make getting around Dallas easy. There are four lines - Red, Green, Blue and Orange - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| The trams run on reserved track as well as in the street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Mockingbird, the junction of the Red and Blue Lines. All day passes are available and the tram is an excellent way to see Dallas - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Views from a DART Green Line train: the city skyline (above) and designer graffiti (right) at Deep Ellum - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Garland, the terminal of the Blue Line Line - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| GP40 (above) and a GENSET (right) at Garland - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| Union Station is served by Amtrak, Trinity Rail Express (TRE) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Both the DART and the TRE, as well as Amtrak, operate through Union Station - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| Both streamlined and non-streamlined ex-GO Transit F59PH locos of TRE propel their trains from Fort Worth into Union Station. | |||
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| A freight train passing Union Station, Dallas - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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| A TRE Budd railcar consist has just arrived at Union Station from Fort Worth (left); another TRE Budd consist stopping at Victory Station, Dallas, en route for Fort Worth (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |||
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Museum of the American Railroad, Dallas |
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ATSF FP45 locomotive #97 (above) and ATSF F7A #49 (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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DDX #6913 of Union Pacific (above) and Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4018 (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 pulled Robert
Kennedy's funeral train (right)
- PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow The museum is relatively small but has an interesting collection of rare locomotives and is easily reached by public transport.
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